Her image had passed into his soul for ever and no word had broken the holy silence of his ecstasy. Her eyes had called him and his soul had leaped at the call. To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life! A wild angel had appeared to him, the angel of mortal youth and beauty, an envoy from the fair courts of life, to throw open before him in an instant of ecstasy the gates of all the ways of error and glory. On and on and on and on! β¨ James Joyce (2005). A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, p.199, Collector's Library
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- My heart is quite calm now. I will go back. β¨ James Joyce (2016). James Joyce The Dover Reader, p.242, Courier Dover Publications
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- His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead. β¨ Dubliners The Dead (1914)
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